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Local foods mini-movie debuts

12/01/09

07:15:15 pm, by pamela, 260 words

Categories: Agricultural Land Reserve

Local foods mini-movie debuts

A nice little production reminiscent of National Film Board flicks and I can attest to the incredible flavour of locally caught spot prawns and cheese from the Little Qualicum cheese company!

Local foods mini-movie debuts
on new activist website

The 100-Mile Diet Society of Vancouver is launching a short animated film, Home Is Where the Food Is, November 3rd on its brand-new website. "My film will make you feel hungry," says animator Jody Kramer. "It follows each ingredient of a delicious meal to its local source." It will be shown in community screenings, in schools, and on social networking websites.

The new Society website, www.foodshed.100milediet.org, is based on the cutting-edge folksiness of the Vancouver Foodshed Map, which is hand illustrated by landscape artist Shaun Finnigan and designed by former Adbusters staff known as The Goggles.
This is a must-have poster for anyone living or knowing anyone from within 100 miles of Vancouver. The radius includes Victoria, Nanaimo, Whistler, and Bellingham, Washington.

"The poster reveals the secrets and pleasures of local foods in our region," says Alisa Smith, the Vancouver-based author of The 100-Mile Diet. Buy it online to support the organization and UBC Farm's low-carbon experimental farming project.
This project aims to take the fossil fuels out of agriculture, making local foods an environmental revolution three times a day.

The Foodshed Project is a partnership between Vancouver's 100-Mile Diet Society and UBC Farm. Funding is provided by Environment Canada's EcoAction Community Funding Program, Vancity and Metro Vancouver.

Website design by Freshfront.

For more information contact:
shirlene@100milediet.org

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